When did you get your bump?

I'm now just over 16 weeks and I still just look fat.

I started off with a bit of a spare tyre anyway and I have gradually grown out of my 12 jeans and can just about do up my 14 jeans.

I have no definiton of a bump, although if I press hard enough I can feel what I am assured is my uterus.

Is this normal?

Am I worrying abot nothing?

I got directed from my due in Feb thread to here and it's alleviated any concerns.

And I'm by no means tall, only 163cm, but I've always been on the large (size 14) size.

With my first, I've got photos at 15 weeks from my sisters wedding - I htought I looked pregnant at the time, but looking back, I just looked a bit fat

I think I was definitively pregnant the first time by about 20 weeks, this time a bit earlier.

Same as Kelly. I took ages to get a bump! When I went in for my scan at 18 weeks (not the 20 weeks one this was separate) the lady who called for me thought that I was a no show because she couldn't see any pregnant looking women in the waiting room.

I had a bump by Xmas so about 31 weeks but I didn't get much of a bump until maybe 25 weeks. I have a pic from 17 weeks and it kinda looks like a bump but no one thought I was pregnant or knew I definitely was until maybe 1-2 months before she arrived! I recall DPs nana saying at Xmas 'Oh you are pregnant!'

I was almost convinced I was getting my bump yesterday (at 8 weeks!)
I was thinking "wait!!! I'm not ready to tell evenone yet!"
But seems it was more to do with bloating

Can't wait til I have real bump

Edited by minipig

I remember being asked for the first time when I was due by a stranger at 16ish weeks, that's when I started to pop out and within a couple of weeks I looked full term. Not quite sure how that works!

At 19 or so weeks I was wearing a tight dress when mum walked in behind me, I turned to face her and she said "Holy cow, how far along are you again?"
I got big, fast.

On the other side of the bump spectrum, I recently met a girl who was 7 months at the time with a perfectly healthy little girl... And didn't even look fat. She looked like a thin woman who had just had lunch. I had to hold myself back from touching her tummy out of sheer curiosity!

Honestly with my 2nd I didn't get a "baby" bump till between 24 and 28 weeks, before that it just looked like extra round the middle :(

With my first I started out a bit skinnier so there was more definition but still no defined preggy belly till 20-24 weeks.

Ooh Kalimirella congrats!!

I'm 5'7/170ishcm and usually a size 8-10 and I didn't show with either of mine til 5.5/6 months along and I didn't actually pop til 3 days before DS1 arrived, though sooner with DS2. My second bump got bigger simply coz DS was high and poking out but yeah I stayed pretty small with both of them. Actually both times my mws were sure I'd be having tiny babies but nope both over 9 pounds so don't worry bout it
I did look fat though for like the whole 1st trimester both times :sigh: I remember we announced baby #2 and my sister was so shocked coz she'd been secretly thinking man someones gained some weight LMAO I was so upset when she blurted that out I started crying so everyone immediately started reassuring me that no no its ok now they actually know its coz of a baby then I *definitely* look pregnant suck-ups hahahahaha....

With my first I just looked a bit fat until well into my 20 weeks, at 23ish weeks I could still happily do up my slimfitting size 10 jacket (I was a size 10 to start with) and I didnt buy any maternity clothes the entire pregnancy yet the result is now a happy 4 year old....
(one of the ladies that I see every week at church commented to me after he was born that "I had only just found out you were pg the week before!")

Number 2 popped a lot earlier though and has been a heck of a lot harder (ok, still isnt) to un-pop!! Despite getting my abs back within 3 weeks or so of DS1 being born!!! Those poor muscles must have over-stretched...

I am the same hight as you and was the same size too - my bump popped at about 19-20 weeks - before that it just looked like extra weight, espcially sitting!